Category: Movies
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Remember When Illumination Ruined the Grinch?

Yay! More ruined Suess stories! And just in time for Christmas! Just pretend this article came out a month ago… You know how the story goes. The Grinch is a grumpy old Scrooge who hates Christmas so he decides to ruin it. Hijinks ensue before he learns the true meaning of the holiday and becomes…
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Illumination’s The Lorax is an Insult to the Original Book

We’re finally done with Minions! Now we get to talk about how Illumination takes beloved children book classics and absolutely butchers them on a fundamental level! This is still somehow an improvement! I’m running out of straws to grasp and we’re not even halfway done, please help me. The Lorax is one of my favorite…
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Minions: The Rise of Gru Made Me Hate Movies

No more Minions. Please, for the love of all that is holy, please don’t make me deal with these things again. If I ever see one beyond the studio logo at the start, it’ll be too soon. Minions: The Rise of Gru is a movie. By which I mean it’s exactly what you’d expect from…
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Minions is a Lazy Movie

Happy New Year! Welcome back to hell! I can no longer hear Minion noises. All I hear is someone banging on my skull with a baseball bat. Or maybe that’s just the echo of me banging my head against my desk; it’s hard to tell. Minions is a movie made for aunts on Facebook and…
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Despicable Me 3 is Exhausting…

My patience for this series and this studio are officially over. And we’re not even halfway through. Lord, help me… Despicable Me 3 is a mess. It’s not bad, per se; that is if you fall into its target demographic of small children. Anyone else might quickly find themselves with a headache. It’s a short…